bobp@petfe.UUCP (Bob Philhower) (08/09/85)
[ My mother always told me I should have been a cynic] Why (Oh Why) has the once humourous net.bizarre been subjected recently to a net.barrage of drivel? (ZB: endless variations on "strange postings and odd occurences", a never-ending story [good idea, but needed some thought as to how many people would reply...], "artwork"...) I mean, the "Stupid People's Court" moving and some of the early letters promised something good.... *sigh* ----------- "A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" -- Professor Charlie Green (in Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury) direct all flames to net.flame.
wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (08/15/85)
Could we turn this into a discussion of the charter of net.bizarre? When the group was first proposed, I expected it to collect really bizarre things, like fillers from the *New Yorker* and silly season newspaper articles and those really, really weird things you don't run across every day. Not ASCII pictures (what's so bizarre about them?), not do-it-yourself novels (the most bizarre things in life are REAL, not fiction), not several screens of garbage (especially Kate Bush and HOMEBOYS and somebody's first experience with an editor), not jokes (I liked the DT80 series, but maybe it should have gone to net.jokes; I firmly believe truth is stranger than fiction), not stupid comments about bazaars (try /dev/null), not whatever falls out of the bored mind of some turkey in Buffalo, IL. Am I living under a misconception, or do most people consider the above-mentioned stuff to be bizarre? I sure don't. I think the *Bizarre Gazette* is the best thing that's happened to this group. I think that in the mad dash to justify the continued existence of this notesfile just about anything was allowed in. Do most readers agree or disagree with that? What did *you* expect to find here the first time you read net.bizarre? "When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all." Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat
seshadri@t12tst.UUCP (Raghavan Seshadri) (08/16/85)
> "A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value > of nothing" -- Professor Charlie Green (in Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury) > The author of the quote is Oscar Wilde. -- Raghu Seshadri